Booker Prize

 

2002

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel--Winner!
• Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
• Unless by Carol Shields
• The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• Dirt Music by Tim Winton

2001

• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey--Winner!
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Oxygen by Andrew Miller
• Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
• Hotel World by Ali Smith

2000

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood--Winner!
• The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
• The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
• The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty

1999

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee--Winner!
• Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
• Headlong by Michael Frayn
• Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
• The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

1998

• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan--Winner!
• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
• England, England by Julian Barnes
• The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
• Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
• The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

1997

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy--Winner!
• The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St. John
• Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
• The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
• Europa by Tim Parks
• Quarantine by Jim Crace

1996

• Last Orders by Graham Swift--Winner!
• Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay

1995

• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker--Winner!
• In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
• The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
• Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
• The Riders by Tim Winton

1994

• How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman--Winner!
• Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
• Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
• The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
• Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh

1993

• Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle--Winner!
• Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
• Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
• Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1992

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje--Cowinner!
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth--Cowinner!
• Serenity House by Christopher Hope
• The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts

1991

• The Famished Road by Ben Okri--Winner!
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
• The Van by Roddy Doyle
• Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
• The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
• Reading Turgenev by William Trevor

1990

• Possession by A.S. Byatt--Winner!
• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Amongst Women by John McGahern
• Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
• Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

1989

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro--Winner!
• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville
• Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
• A Disaffection by James Kelman
• Restoration by Rose Tremain

1988

• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey--Winner!
• Utz by Bruce Chatwin
• The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Nice Work by David Lodge
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Lost Father by Marina Warner

1987

• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively--Winner!
• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
• Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden
• The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
• The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

1986

• The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis--Winner!
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey
• What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Insular Possession by Timothy Mo

1985

• The Bone People by Keri Hulme--Winner!
• Illywhacker by Peter Carey
• The Battle of Pollock's Crossing by J.L. Carr
• The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
• Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
• The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch

1984

• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner--Winner!
• Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
• In Custody by Anita Desai
• According to Markby Penelope Lively
• Small World by David Lodge

1983

• Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee--Winner!
• Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
• Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
• The Illusionist by Anita Mason
• Shame by Salman Rushdie
• Waterland by Graham Swift

1982

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally--Winner!
• Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden
• An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
• Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
• The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

1981

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie--Winner!
• Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
• The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
• The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
• Rhine Journey by Anne Schlee
• Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
• The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

1980

• Rites of Passage by William Golding--Winner!
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
• Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
• The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
• No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain
• Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth

1979

• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald--Winner!
• Confederates by Thomas Keneally
• A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
• Joseph by Julian Rathbone
• Praxis by Fay Weldon

1978

• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch--Winner!
• Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
• Rumours of Rain by Andre Brink
• The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
• God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
• A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens

1977

• Staying On by Paul Scott--Winner!
• Peter Smart's Confessions by Paul Bailey
• Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
• Shadows on Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
• The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
• Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

1976

• Saville by David Storey--Winner!
• An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink
• Rising by R.C. Hutchinson
• The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore
• King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone
• The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

1975

• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--Winner!
• Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally

1974

• The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer--Cowinner!
• Holiday by Stanley Middleton--Cowinner!
• Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
• The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
• In Their Wisdom by C.P. Snow

1973

• The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell--Winner!
• The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
• The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

1972

• G by John Berger--Winner!
• The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
• Pasmore by David Storey

1971

• In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul--Winner!
• The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
• Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
• St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
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• Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
• Mrs Palfrey at the Clairmont by Elizabeth Taylor

1970

• The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens--Winner!
• John Brown's Body by A.L. Barker
• Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
• Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch
• Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor
• The Conjunction by T. Wheeler

1969

• Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby--Winner!
• Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
• The Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley
• The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
• The Public Image by Muriel Spark

From Scenes Like These by G.M. Williams